Many Americans regard Joe Biden’s performance as president to be poor, as noted by his approval/disapproval ratings. While most point to his record on inflation, immigration, crime, and the overall economy to be the lows of presidency, what should be is his poor...
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US Navy Destroyers Responded to Russian, Chinese Vessels Near Aleutian Islands
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 9, 2023 | News
The US deployed four Navy destroyers in response to Russian and Chinese vessels operating near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, which stretch far into the northern Pacific Ocean.
The Fluid Morality of Statism
by Kym Robinson | Aug 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
For anyone who has been forced to justify their beliefs when it comes to individual liberty, we are often placed onto the back foot in the defense of the imaginary. The what if? emerges as an ideological assault that somehow is expected to prove the supremacy of the...
Did Unions Kill America’s Oldest Trucking Business?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Aug 7, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
On July 30, Yellow, one of the oldest and largest trucking businesses in the United States, ceased operations and moved to declare bankruptcy. According to reports, the final nail in the coffin of the ninety-nine-year-old business was a labor dispute with the...
Seoul Needs to Divorce Washington
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The bilateral military alliance between South Korea and the United States has become increasingly unproductive and needlessly perilous for both countries. Astute American analysts have argued for decades that the arrangement is not a good deal for the United States....
Talking to Russia: Five Things You Won’t Believe Are Being Said Behind Closed Doors
by Ted Snider | Aug 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On July 6, it was revealed that secret back-channel talks have been held between former U.S. officials and “prominent Russians believed to be close to the Kremlin.” The U.S. officials do not represent the Joe Biden administration but have briefed the White House....
World War II’s Top Military Leaders Admitted Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Aug 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history—that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million U.S....
US and Taliban Official Meet, Washington Slams Kabul Over Human Rights
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 1, 2023 | News
US officials met with Taliban diplomats in Qatar for two days of talks. The discussions come as Washington’s economic war in Kabul has caused severe suffering for the Afghan people two years after the end of the US military occupation. A State Department press...
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From Savagery to Civilization
"The market economy is a man-made mode of acting under the division of labor. But this does not imply that it is something accidental or artificial and could be replaced by another mode. The market economy is the product of a long evolutionary process. It is the...
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth is the mantra that we hear, especially now but on and off over the coming year. Those who use violence, will smile it out. Those who profit from war may cheer those words from corporate offices. Those who hate will do so for entire collectives of...
Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
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